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A BBQ Cooker Made by a Chelyabinsk’ “Handyman” In A Form of a Submarine “M-60”

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Octopus Candle Older 

Craftsman Makes Spectacular Stained Glass Octopus Chandeliers

“An egg-shaped box with three bird feet, probably“

Door knocker

Wearable chainmail octopus - Piece created by weaving together over 15,000 anodized aluminium rings by hand. The result is something kinetic, fun, and strange. Artist: Vanessa Walilko

Oh, cool! Beautifully designed pendant of a gold pomegranate filled with cabochon garnet ‘seeds’

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The ring was used as a seal matrix for sealing amphorae of wheat (hence the ear of wheat symbol) with its purity and freedom from contamination symbolized by the cockerel and the dead mouse. The locust is the seal of a ceramic manufacturing house.

Art Nouveau stickpin, 1900.

Perhaps not a novel there, but a short story or at least lengthy footnote. IIRC the only magic (talking) sword in Discworld, Kring, once expressed a desire to be a ploughshare…